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CINCINNATI,  WEDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER    19,  1860. 


'NEGRO  EQUALITY*. 

pted  for  arguments,  1 


cqualit}-."  Of  course 
no  "nigger  equality"  v, 
no  "m^viN(  „,„!  „*  tl 
parry  propose  to  save  t 

i-nn-y  leavca  \v:iy  open  I 


a-  party  tin'  responsibility  <->f  all 
iH-ru  .'-quality  which    prevail*  in 


terring  citizenship  upon  negroes,  was 
overwhelmingly  Democratic,  and  the 
Democratic  party  enacted  by  law 
that  n.-^ruis  should  he  citizens  ! 

In  the  State  of  New  Hampshire 
negroes  are  citizens.  The  State  of 
Xew  Hampshire  at  the  time  when  cit- 
izenship was  conlerred  upon  colored 
persons,  was  overwhelmingly  Demo- 


were  conferred  upon  them  by  the 
Democratic  party  of  that  State  at  the 
only  time  when  they  ever  hold  the 


ferred  this  privilege  upon  them  was 
largely  Democratic — was  presided 
over  by  Martin    Van  Bureu,  then  the 

Democratic  leader    of  11 


ty  of  the  nation  '  And  at  the  same 
time  Richard  M.  Johnson,  of  Ken- 
tucky,   who  had  married    a    colored 


President*  death,  would  have  be 
mistress  of  the  White  House!     Qu 

likely  .-lie  would  have  [cut  ^race 
(he  Presidential  levee-,  (>uite  Ilk. 
*he  would  have  received  the  forei 
Amha-.sad.n-s  with  dignity  and  -n: 


Till:   QUITMAN  LET 


Fi\e  Trader  produces    the  following 

in  1856,  which  convicts  Senator 
Douglas  of  ha  vine;  completely  upo-la- 
tized  at  that  time  from  his  "Popular 
Sovereignty"  teachings  of  1  S5-i,  upon 
which  lie  now  falls  back.  In  1856, 
when  he  was  straining  every  nerve 
to  obtain  the  Presidential  nomination, 

South  demanded;  hut  in  Is.'h,  when 
a  l.c-isiatnre  was  to  he  elected,  up. >n 
which  his  Senatorial  existence  de- 
pended, he  went  back    to   his    teach - 


Dred  Scott  dec 


s  necessary  to  il 


.us  you  see  the  Dred  Scott  dec 
is  an  "authoritative  interpret! 
tiUU  of  the  Constitution" — and  by 
which  slaves  are  made  property,  and 
placed  on  an  equality  with  all  other 
property,    and    the    ylave-owner    is 


party  w.'iv 

ihe    (JoJI-tll 

right  of  su 


\\  \i  vs    ?iu.  it:krv.  os    soi  in 

CAKOL1NA,  THINKS. 

Mr.  Fillmore  became    President    c 


■peech,  r/mc, 
•d  to  the  unci 
■  Fugitive  Sh 


likeness.      It  is   equally 


'General  Quitman, 


South.  It  can  not  ho  in  the  nature 
Of  any  man  elevated  to  the  Prosiden- 
'cy  to  wish   to  see  the  Government 


ch  a  few  days  since,  expiring 
3ourse.      Among  the  reasons  as- 

1.  The    Baltimore    Popular    Sover- 
eignty   Platform    indorses  the    Dred 
Scott  decision.     The  Dred  Scott   do- 
iion    declares  that  Slavery  legally 
lists  in  all  the  Territories.     There 
thon,  no  difference  between  the  pol- 
y  of  the  Breckinridge  ami  Douglas. 
■A    Mr.   Douglas  in   :t   recent  sikm.-i-Ii 
firmed  that  the  practical  o|ieralioii 
mm-] nlL']'vi-[il[..n  had  been  to  coii- 
rtSmv  Mexico,  wliieli  u  as   IbrDicr- 
a  free  Territory,  into  a  slave  Ter- 
;ory.      Thus,  through  Popular  Sov- 
--eigiily,  the  South  had    gained  from 
the    North — Slavery    had    snatched 
an  area  equal  to  fine 
■e  of  New   York.    If 
of  "my  great  prin 


Lincoln  and  Hann 


,  any 


of  Ihe  Kept 
)r  if  tho  alt 
■  only  great 


"'""'"  ""'mb 
party.  Norn; 
i  bo  Joe  Lane, 
id  party  in  tin 
II  hold  dealings  with  the  little 
jii  of  traders  and  intriguers  who 
low  prostituting  to  their  own 
usos  the  names  of  John  Bell  and 
ird  Everett.— Nan  Sort  Trihinc. 


i  the  third  Boll  and  ) 


posed  to  the  Democracy  This  sym- 
pathy might  lead  them  to  vote  the 
Republican  ticket,  if  by  so  doing 
the  free  trade  Democracy  could  he 
beaten  in  the  State,  but  knowing 
this  can  not  be  effected,  they  intend 
to  vote  for  Bell  and  Evetett,  for  the 
great— the  predominant— the  ruling 
and  controlling  sentiment  of  our  peo- 
ple is  for  the  defeat  of  the  Democra- 
cy— first  by  Bell  and  Everett,  if  it 
can  be,  and  if  not  by  them,  then  by 
Mr.  Lincoln. 

The  Republicans  are  with  us  in  re- 
gard to  the  Tariff,  a  subject  of  vital 
interest  to  our  prosperity— they  are 
with  as   for  the   purity    of  the    ballot 

eral  Government,  and  with  the  ex- 
ception, perhaps,  of  slavery,  in  all  eg- 

we  band  with  flee  trade  men,  simply 
to  defeat  Mr.  Lincoln?  We  protest 
against  all   such  alliances. 

Thf  rank  and  tile  of  the  Bell  and 
F.verett  part}-  in  New  Jersey  are  in- 
dignant at  the  conduct  of  their  lead- 
ers in  transferring  thorn  to  the  sup- 
porters of  Breckinridge  i]   " 


traded  off  so 


HAKl.ONj.B.-ltisth 

lie  Long  Island  lie-public 
heir  meeting  with  prayer 
hie  clergyman,  called    U] 


since  embraced  I 
the   lollowing   h 
mentary  allnsio 
ministration. 
"O  Lord,  thou 


e,  as  a  people  are   now  undoi-guim; 

DomiLAS  never   dodged  any  ques- 

,n  In  his  life.— H«lju<l«e  Iferald. 

At  the  last  session  of  Congress   lie 

dodged   the    Kansas  bill— he  dodged 


as  paired  off,  except 
Presidency.      He 


i 


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THE  "HAIL  SPLITTER," 

ORICINAL  CUT, 


THE  RAIL  SPLITTER. 


J.  H.  JOKDAX,  « 
J.  B.  HcKEEIIAN, 

NOTIOE.-Tli.  Editor. ofl 


CINCINNATI,  SEPT'R  IB,  I860. 


ALL  HAIL!  MAINE! 

Maine  Hub  done  nobly.     She  senda  u; 

>  glorious  R,  i.iii.ii.-nii  sun-rise.  On  lion 
day,  the  10th  in>t  ,  the  j.coj.lv  ul"  Maine 
voted  for  governor,  congressmen,  'mem 
bers  of  the  Legislature,  and  other  officers 
The  result  is,  a  Republican  majority  ol 

year  of  over  3,001).  This  is  the  second 
gun  for  Freedom  and  the  White  Man'i 
Party.  Vermont  voted  a  few  days  previ 
on*  giving  the  l:..|>ul.liciins  a  majority  o 
22,000  I  But  then,  nobody  expected  any 
thing    else    of    Vermont!       Douglas,    it 


weeks  ago.     May  we  not 


Declaration  declared  the  Independence  of  a 

the  Declabatios  of  Indepekdenc 

Slates.    The  Articles  of  Confederation  were 

not  formed  for  year,  after  the  Declaration  of 

Independence;  and    five  years  more  elapsed 

of  Slavery,  hut  to  Slavery   itsel 

forms,  and  everywhere!      That 

The  Declaratioa,  however,  .tood ;  it  was  for 

asserts  the  bread  and  eternally 

years  the  only  Coa.titotion  and  fondamcat.l 

pie  upon  which  our  Government  w 

lulgated  at  Philadelphia  with,  joyous  shout! 
ad  the  ringing  of  the  great  bell,  the  rim  o 
hioh.hy  ft  strange  nod  significant  coinci 
enoe,  bore  Ibe  inscription — "Proclaim  Lib 
rty  throughout  ihe  Land  unto  All  the  Inhabit 
nts  thereof:"— It  was  read  by  George  Wash 
jgtoD  al  the  bend  of  the  Army  encampec 
round  Boston,  nil  of  whom  pledg.-d  them 
alvea  to  stand  by  il  to  the  last:— It  was  sane 
loncd  by  nil  the  Provincial  assemblies,  anc 
fliTwards  adopted  by  i  be  State  Governments 


records  of  o 
E.  ■m-U'.-oc. 


iud   subsequent    Laws- 


not  to  admit  any  word  or  language  int 
Constitution  which  might  convey  the  ide 
it  recognized  even  the  existence  of  Slave 
.rtnattherecouldbesuchathing.asMadi 
laid — "as  property  in  man,"  that  not  onl; 

iuee  of  Edmond  Randolph,  of  Virginia 


;  DECLARATION. 


regarded  as  the  Fundamental   Law  and 

because  it  would  ha 

exposed,  and  perha 

The  propagandists 

11/  gon-Tiiliona,  and  the  Star  of  Hope  to 

f0VhaV  fave,ry" 

anomaly  as  Slavery  ,Ai>t=,  . 

precisely  what  .Mr  Mad.«..» 
he  framed  that  inatrumeut.  It 
fore  that  before  Slavery  can 


verted.     This  the  a<i 

plainly  foreseen;  and  hence  theattempta 

have  recently  been  made,  through  the  instru- 
mentality of  the  Supreme  Court,  to  thus  change 


are  thus  "sapping  and  mining,  slily,  and 
without  alarm,  the  foundation  of  the  Consti- 
tution, and  thereby  doing  what  open  force 

Worki,  vol.  7,  page  403.]  This  they  have  done 
in  their  Dred  Scott  decision,  so  that  it  is  now 
claimed  by  the  whole  South,  Bnd  the  entire 
Df[ii.u.'riitic    party,  North  and   South,  that  ac- 


■  Territories!     This  much  the  Slave 
w  claims  as  "settled."     They  might 

ed  "  States"  as  well  as  "  Territories:" 


1  alarm,  and  have 


oool  Principle.,  and  should  bo  as  sacredly 

ing  1 " 

icn.hed  as  the  Bible  itself,  by  every  friend 

Bot- 

other  difficulty  in  the 

pervert,  or  destroy  the 

Thi.  Declaration  was  the  very  first  act  of 

ur  national  existence  :  II  was  b,i„,,.  UK.  >',.,]- 

aercdly  cherished,  and 

ral  Compact,  and  before  any  legal  or  formal 

more  de 

ply  planted 

n  the  hearts  and  affoo- 

t  by  the  colonies  a.  separate  States.    The 

the  America 

people— there  elands 

— or  crumble  into  anarchy ,  nun  ni 
That  instrument  declares  that  "a 
created  eljual.  and  endowed  with  c 


of  Independence  must 
its  meaning  perverted 
the  advocates  of  Slavei 


very  central  id 


C._.l,->:'.''-1i..ii  ' 


United  States  carries  and 
11  the  Territories,  declared 
in  the  United  States  Senate  that  the  Declara- 
tion of  Independence  was  false— that  all  men 
are  not  ereoted  equal.  Soon  after,  John  Pftt.it, 
another  U.  S.  Democratic  Senator,  and  from  a 
Free  State,  declared  it  tobea  "stlj-rtUltxt  lit:" 
Rufus  Choat,  the  brilliant  and  gined  lawyer 
of  New  England,  a  great  man,  but  greatly 


:  that  Declaration  to  be   "  glittering 


1  re-echoed  by  lesser  lights  i 
:.■  party,  throughout  tin  nation 
lys  Ur.  Douglas— the  man  wh 


abject  of  Slavery,  and 


And   this   is 

He  repeated  this  declaration  iu  a  speech  at 

Springfield,  Ills,,  on  the  17th  of  the  same 

month,  and   has  frequently  uttered   the  same 

0™7Tnald 

sentiment,  both  before  and  since. 

its  ally,  the 

Mr.  J.  R.  Haldeman,  of  Harrisburg,  Pa.,  is 

Chairman  of  the  Douglas  Democratic  Execu- 

tive  Committee  of  that  State.    During   the 

Btr  vT 

month  of  March  last  ho  published  a  tract,  of 

Hottentot,  the  Indian,  the  Caucasian,  tt 
European,  the  lowest  a,  well  as  lb*  hi-he 
— all  who  bear  the  impress  of  the  Great  Crei 
tor  and  the  image  of  the  Almighty  F.i.h-r  . 
all— are,  in  the  si^'bt  ■■!'  Heaven  und  of  lb- 
God,  ox  an  equality.  That  is  what  the  Deeh 
ration  means  ;  that  is  what  KepiiWicaim  io-  ■,. 

Ill  the  1ujil:ii:i!;,:  ..f  A  ■.«■<--.    .   ;  ■.  .       :■■ 


ighti 


sublime  confronting  of  dan 
highest  creative  powers  of  i 
ble.  The  Bill  of  Rights  wl 
is  of  Rights  that  are  oldei 
tutions,  and  spring  from  t 


r,..A-,-  ,.) 


1  faith  i 


,  „!    i,    four, I. 


nitty  of  the  races  of  m, 

'-'['i ti "H   with    :he   anbi^.n 

f  men.  and  c 


'  of  the  races  of  men  from  the  French  Revo 
'""— foiX'-lLing,  it  would  seern,  the  import 
t  fact  that  theFrenah  Revolution  ocourred 
tnty  years  after  Jefferson  wrote  the  Decbira- 
n  of  Independence! 


r,ples 


reality  and  unchangeable*  of  FREEDOM. 
VIRTUE  and  RIGHT.  The  heart  of  J 
son  in  writing  the  Declaration,  nnd  of 
gress  iu  adopting  it,  beat  fok  all  Hum; 
the  Assertion  of  Right  was  made  for 
ENTIRE  WORLD  OF  MANKIND  and 
COMING  GENERATIONS.  WITHOUT 
ANT  EXCEPTION 


the-,    suddenly  hear  the  dim 

accents  of  their  Tiiotfi.-r  t.-.m-ut 
[Hist.  U.S.,  vol.  8,  rag.-  472. 


rreat  Truth  which  underlies  our  naliou.il  .■ 
ptence,  and  upon  which  we  started  out  un."i 
he  notions  of  the  earth  !    Henceforth,  0  Ba: 


LATTER-DAY  DEMOCRACY. 

George  E    PM,  Lrtwrencehtirgli. 

,avo  beard  such  talk  as  this  before, 


a  degradation  of  the  aegrt 


i;\s  or  THE  TI.TIES. 


like  nil  "Union" 

,cb    .  little  further 
t  of  the  North,  ant 


j  North.     He  did 


neighbor  as  tbyl-lV."   :l'h"*  ^.M.l'.'l  «■»■  "I.Vt  and 


,ia_M,n.     justify     the     assort.....      that      Ni-gro 
ilru--ry  is   unju-t.  i      Thnt  i*  th,    ;.uiHf  to  which 

b.d,  uh.,1,  ,.:.vs."L.n..tlij    r..  igbl-r   a,  ih> 


...  ....<  umust;    ;crics  of  -  Bravo  ")  .f  u 

nut    uu}.t'st,    but    it    11    JUST,  WISE, 

NEFIUENT.       lApplausu    and    hie 
maintain   that  il.  is    benign    in   its  ii 


-elf  ..plains    co  relative    dulie*    on    the    black 

!  '  |  ill    i     nii'n 

'I  |nN  ol    n ,■*,-... -Uveiy        II  "if     I       J 


ii.lviiiit.-  Ih..'  doelmie  lli.lt  n.-; 
nil:.;  ubieh,   all! \s.\,     [.emir 

-/  r     i    \      1      /  /) 


■<■  .-ailed  in  question! 

pench  V— we  mean  the  Democratic   papers.— 
The  New  York  Herald,  atthattinie  a  leading 
rntie  organ     ami  now  a   Douglas-Bell- 


Soutb,  or  THE  DEMOCRACY,  or  Tarn 
he  South,  is   right  and  good   in  itself  T     Ad 

Ue  anil  truth'.  "il,'  Luival'iuiaiil'.  IXTS*,.- 
■I.lv.tv  is  thin  [ml  in  l.v  Mr.  OVonor.  Thi- 
s  :t  '  nf>w  iden    in  u„.  North  ;  it  is   not  nn  old 

.lie  in  the  -Sjulh  ;  I. V    it   is  the  .,,,[,■   „],.;,  upon 

,,,-itioii  tr.ken  Kv  Mr.  O'Coin.i-,  we  deffet  tin- 
■  iim./'iriiUo!)  of  >i  in  -w  e|.i>eli   in  the  i.l  |seii-,^ioii 

\\.rl.h.-rr.     l^n ,■.,.,  .'  —  _\,„-     \  ,'„':■     }l,rM. 

Dec.  21, 1859. 

Kt  hear  what  the  N.  Y.  News  said  of  the 
ng  and  the  apeakers.     The  News,  mind 


With  such    M,eakvrs  as   Churls   O' 
identifie"d0,0andr  lie*  for^lii^^artt  fu»V  J 

e-il   biwyor,  and    clearly  e >:ainined    the 
>y  the  light  of  past  history,  and  tbe  cm 


■  li-roveries  of  Hi-  frr^r.t    d:n.  :,(1    b-mlim.-   to 
speakers,  but  these  were  the  prepared  c 


North. 03  being  good,  sound,  Democratic  dot; 
free  State?  "  Slavery-encouraging,"  an. 
slavi'17-i.'xt.eiiding  ;  slavery  a  "just,  wise,  am 


e  States  ol  the  Union  1  This  "  Ex-govern- 
Hunt,"  mind  you,  is  the  great  H.-lI-Ev-rrU 
■  l-r  in  ih-  Siate  of  New  York,  and  who,  in 
ijuiiL-ti.-n  with   the   Brookscs,  has  Bold  out 

.   11:1!   pH.1V   in  tliatSt:.^  U 1>.-ul:1^  In,'- 


■  uggeated  as  a  proper  candidate  for  the  Char 


erald  Isle  ;  a  son  or"  >>«■  V..ik    by  :vL'pti..i 


UGLAS     AND     BELL-EVERETT 
L'SION-WHAT  THEY    HAKE    BY 


1  prosecuted  with  an  amount  of  i 


I    by  (lit  l<-it. !>■]■*  .,f  Ui.'    [.>oii<71qe 


in  behalf  of  thei 


ill  liis  private  and  pul 


THE    GEEAT    DEMOCEATIC    CALF. 


■<  Government  Pap.' 


•Sucker"  going  through    tiV  SUUos.  hrlliuving  for  his  mothe 


power  of  public  plunder  - 


without  chart  or  compass— without  pride 


hmond  Enquirer,  Jan.  10,  1S6D. 

flagitious  combiimli...!*  stalk  forth  in  tl.e.-l.- 

bus  you  may  see  what  ia  regarded  now  by 

regarded    by   the  Northern    wing  of    the 

North  and  South,  quail  before  the  machin 

y — if  it  succeeds  in  retaining  a  Northern 

wonder  that  the  veterans,  old  and  tried  In  the 

eeacy  I    "We  are  also  plainly  told  by  these 

North.     Who,  in   the  face  of  auch   evid- 

we  drifting,  and  is  this  the  signal  of  revolu 

tion  and  anarchy?      No  wonder  the  publ 

emen  I  be  on  your  guard  !     It  ia  such  "lit- 

heartthrobs   with  deep    and  indignant  emc 

e—which   go    to    influence,   mould,   and 

wise  and  noble  Constitution  are  struck  dow 

k-e  up  public  sentiment.    What  would  be 

by  a  covenant  of  lawless  and  bribed  fanatic 

consequence  if  a  majority  of  the  people  of 

Free  States  thought  and   believed  as  Mr- 

this    premeditated  conspiracy   to    block  th 

uiu.-i.d'.uj  [>!,■.,,■  ,,!'  kn.LVH-y  and  diuruir.iu:^ 

bold  and   reckless  villainy   nnd   injustice 

Cardinal  Wolsey,  or  the  corruptions  and  mia- 
>f  a  Madame  Pampadoure  or  Marlbo- 
rough!  It  won't  do  to  dospise  these  manifests  - 
f  indecent  disregard  and  contempt  of  the 
sovereign,  and  clearly  expressed  judgment  of 
the  people,  for  which  the  Constitution  of  our 


-..V      ttjiu 


epuhlicnn  Suites  to  come  forward   and  elect 

.urcmdidiii-i  and  I.nf.,'11,..  strife  to  81 


y.mr    i.i(.'kct.   oivr    Br.vkini-M-e  nnd    J'on.'b,- 
of  digger  and   Denn   Richmond  and  expe 


your  country  and  your  '.'on-ii 
upon  them.  Nol  Republicans 
etand  by  your  flu^  till  in-  d.,n- 


Tin:  I MOS  GONE. 
gon  was  written  Bell  aud  Eveubtt, 


r-  ,,,*.», only  tin,, 
hourly 'in 'th 


■iun.'uir.;'  i.im-n,:.:i:<  ,.|  ih,  ^j.j.iViu-innrr  ,] 
jet-.  The  Union  must  be  running  off 
rack,  only  just  listen  to   that  bell— we  1] 


-['... !;.-o  ..f  by  ili.-  I'A.iliuist,  to  put  our  hous 
hi  urdi-r  and  noi  I...- sin-pri-ed  when  wo  he. 
that    "the  Union  is,  but   the  Union  shall    1 


"OLD  PUBLIC 

day   of  March,    1861,    la 


'•■)'  :•  I  ir-f    in-y.ii-Ky.f  U  -.-  p,..|.|,.  riiri)o.;l. 
r  representatives.     This  will  he  a  puo<  i..|- 


nol  the  people  tired  /  Don 't  thoy 
ttime  to  say  quitY  Have  they 
■out  enough    of  Democracy  ?     We 


INKLE  PARTY. 


56  we  would  have  no  more  of  those  men.     It 
tthest— doing  no  good— don't  expect  to— an- 

ivitbout  object   or  principle  they  should     be 


New  York.  The  Inst  accounts 
the  Breekioridge  men  have  beeoi 
and  thrown  up.     The  Douglas  ( 


REPUBLICANS,  ATTENTION! 


Republican  Campaign    Summer* ! 

NOS.    1,    3,    AND    3, 


RAIL  SPLITTEKS'  BADGE! 


■  Congr-si.        I  I,-    i..,iin.,y    thus    ,-.:.ndi 

.„n,:i      Wit!,  [!,.-  -xf-pn.:,,,  ol  tli.:-  -,  u.t 

>■  ■ ....     ..     ,.,.1   <;,-.-.,■_>.-,   ,-,„.!  th, 

servaii.-in  ,.y..„  i„  il,.v.,  r-h,li,,-  only  t, 


y?:;z,t;<s 


^or„"T„a^ 


.,i.,„-,„l  tlieLan.l  ...!:i..e.  lour 
.-I   1   fifty   ....Hit...    (1,4..... 

l>— n    ...1.1,  to  .S,-pt-ml.-r   .;.., 

.      ■        '.. i.i  two  hundred 
(147.0SR,274)  n-ies    and 


House,  and   I ■!■  l.-.l.-.j 


.,:,   .,,ld    , 


•-•le  exception,  w...    ...r    11...    !,oni..-t-:,.l 

"fall    .1...   ,..,.,... .■,. tit, I-,*   ..I    the  .SI., 

Slate-.    I,ut    .1,,.,.,.  ,,,   t)M,    Llo,,..-  v„(,-.l  1 


;;',;■;.' ,';;.',".' 


i 


.h<    h^'.l'o 


oi  auyiaousurneet 
chdm™  and,  by '2 


...ud.i.  o.-> 


mis  tli-  1'n-sident,  in  bis  di 

\|.uSi!  in  public  hiiK'.  by  proi-l 

■•  ;....'  surveyed'       Plvery  pel'-OU  refill  d 

-he  lands  so  advertised  tor  sa' 

:liu  fn'Milrm,  pay  to,  hi*  I 
.■  ..i-w  liable  to  bo  sold  to  an 
■nli.i-.oriv  dollar  ami  twenty  1 


[  the  expiration  of  tho  days  of  salt 
oy  the  President,  are  subject  to  pri 

land  oliice  any  or  all  of  the  lands. 
re  at  that  time  unsold,  atone  dollar 

have  not  been  offered  for  sale  more 
ten  years;  ifMbr  a  longer  period 
at    a   less   price,   according  to    tht 


•.'-•tigress,  a-  the  trustee  of  the  whole 
people  is  vested,  l-v  the  condition  of  the 
i-r:„its  iron,  the  States  and  bv  the  i  oi»ti- 
union  it-elf,  with  the  sole  discretionary 
I'iuy.t  of  disposing  of  these  lands.     But, 

becomes  its  duty  to  dispose  of  theio  in 
the  way  that  will  best  promote  the  great- 
ness and  glory  of  the    Republic.       And 

the  evils  of  a  system  of  land  monopoly— 

ev-i    p-iralyzed  the  energies  of  a  nation. 

.  ....-(  i  he  .:.:;ii  oi  -ndusiry  ''  It  ,-■■  -. 
n  ■  1,-n.M.hv  dissertation  to  portray  ib*  evils 
Its  h.sto.v  in  the  Old  World  is  writ:.-.,  u: 


ai-i  patience  hi  despair.  Such  are  dome 
of  the  fruits  of  lend  monopoly  in  tbo  Uld 
World;  and  shall  we  permit  its  d i,  u- 

Our  present  system  is  subject  to  like  evils, 
not  so  great  in  magnitude  perhaps,  but 
similar  in  kind. 

'  >f  the  three  hundred  and  eight  v  -i_:il 
million  ei-ht  hundred  and  fifty  .-uiit 
thousand  th.ee  bundled  and  Uvd:lv!> 
i..i^  <.<&!>)  acres  ol  land  disposed  .  i  i  . 
the  Government,  lo  September  30.  !--/j 
oio-  hundred  and  forty-seven  million 
e:_'i,i  v.-iL'lit  thousand  two  hundred  .n:-l 
-vomv-tinve  H47.nsy.2T3)  acres  were 
sold  for  cash,   and   two  hundred   and  for- 

l  1        1  Mt    t        (II 

were   donated   in    grants   to   individual- 
corporations,  and  States. 
1  he  ifoveininent  hao 


I  ,,,d  ulfio-   to   June   3d,   1853,   one 
died  and  forty-two   million  two  hundred 
and  .i'_-h;v  ihrer.  thousand  four   hundred 

mlM    nl\     ,    Id     Mli        i     14 
to   which  add    ihirtv-eight  million   three 
hundred    and    thirty-six    thousand    one 
hundred    uud    ..ixtv    dollars    and     ninety 
.enL-    <.s;>-.;:;.U<;uoo,  lt,,;eived  ,inc.  S    .1 

,       ll     m  tli     l.i    t     I     -   I  t  ml 
KJn,    one   hundred    mid    eighty    nul!...u 

nirTety^ent^;  {9mj[£1$3Z.9Q)  wbfte  "the 

.■■xlingiiMimg  of  Indian  title,  surveying, 
and  uiiiuaidriL'.  has  been  for  the  same  pe- 
riod   iiinty-one  million  nine  hundred  and 

1       l'l        1  '  et^     nue 

to  ,he  government,  over  and  above  all 
co^l,  of  .  ightv-eight  million,  six  hundred 
•-.ml  uveiitv-hve  ihoii-mid  six  hundred 
and  iwr-nivdive  dollar,  and  ninety  .-n'- 
<  '  ">)  with  one  hundred  an.l 
th  ,i  n    lit    ii     mi  ,       hundi     I      -i-l 

OS-ll/acre    surveyed  but 

.  >        i  ■  subject  topHvatoentry.  °'" 

Of    the    one    hundred    and    lorty  -,,-v.  i, 

nmhon   eiidity-eight   thousand   two   bun- 

d,,-d  and  .-eventy  three  (147,088,273)  acres 

an  av-iage,  at  least  four  dollars  per  acre 
ov.-i  the  government  price  So  he  would 
pay,  on  seventy-three  million  five  hun- 
d,ed  and  Ibrtv-roiir  thousand  one  hun- 
dred and  thirty-six  (73,j44,1361  acres,  be- 
,,,.-  one  hall'  the  quantity  sold  by  the 
i;,',v ,„,,![.   two   hundred    and    ninety- 


(241,770,052)  aores  dona 
companies,   and  States, 

and  over  fifty  million  u 
and  internal  improve] 
that  the  cultivator  must 
age  for  these  lands  at 
per  acre,  making  the  su 
dred  and  eight  millioi 


and  .,;d,:--i 
torty^.v      ll 

■'.-_•■  :_■■■.    ".i 
int.!    il..-    i.. 


i.t.al    siau-,, 


Iby  t 


il„    .,..,,  i n-,1.   by    a-  l.u.d  p.,i„  y 

MiU-ei,  fundi. -d  million  dollai-  ;<ji  in. 
met.-  privilege  of  enjoying  one  of  God' 
bounty  lo  man  'l'ln«.  hug.-  amount  ha 
been  abstracted  from  the  son-ol  t. id  with 

mil  from  tin-  State  to  uecupv  a  wiidein.  >-. 
to  which  not  a  day  or" 


l  1. 1-  . 


made 


u'.idin.-  plae-    tin    .iiLd)_  lb.      p.l:..|in...;'. 


contributed  to  the  leveuue,  ot  the  State, 
anv  inoie  than  to  [...-: imt  ium  to  breathe 
the  o:r  eli|..V  the  -ui. "s  1  .-!it.O!  ■auill  Ilooi 
the  nlKand  rivers  of  th-  "arth  '  It  would 
be  just  (M  rightful  were  i!  possible  to  be 
done,  to  survey  the  atmovnber.-'  <>if  into 

of  ray*   and    dole    it  out    to  giopmg   mwr- 

to  dying  men. 

In   the  langufiL'e   o:    remain-     iieieio 

gift-  ol  (,-iod  to  man  been  confined,  by 
legal  codes,  to  the  soil  alone?     Is  there 

^- '  I*  ^-  *  -'  -"  t  T  ^ '  ^  i " .  --  ^  <^.  ^  ^-  i  r »  » i ,  K  y  - 1  ^ .  - .  ^  r  >  ^  ^  -  — 

ge  of  the  soil  that  he  tilled, 

life,     liberty,    and      happim.".*- 


nd  whose  life,    liberty. 


!!_•   lb-    ;.!.•: 


su  constituted  timt  u  is  prone  to  rogard 
a«  right  what  has  como  down  to  us  ap- 
proved by  lollg  C'.l-toUl  and  hallowed  by 
gravage  It  is  a  claim  that  had  Its 
with   the  kindred  ulea  that  royal 

cau*-  bom  amid  ihe  glitter  oi  court 
cradled    an. id    tin-    pomp     ot     lords     and 

race!  *  Mo-t  of  I'm-  eviU  imil  udli.-t  <. 
dety  have  bad  their  origin  ;u  violend 
andwroiiL'     enacted    into   law   by  the   e\ 


.■mli.. I  i.|-i.    .1  b>    ll.--   i.^riuu  uoinl.-d  |...!kj- 
,f  other   lo.i.-s.  an. I   ».lu|.l«.-l  die  k-|:islatK.ii   ol 

"''t7':''^V,»l^7^li-'!o!'^Ki';r'lu,'h!" 
.n^,M'^lr.v;7'.bl!^!-iial;'V'il';n',;i!' 


The  -C.uegl--    u.-l«-efo  capital    and   b.l 
n  unequal  one   at   best.     It  ib  a  strugg 


xi'ltiVf' 


:;;;::::::' 


:tkyS!SSB 


.1.,...    g[v,.U.r    ...lls.ui.i    ]MojKlii|.-.  ...  ...... inU 

.,.■■  n  |.i.r.iiiii  ut  liiM.iiii.iugi.  t..r  il..-  Iinurif  of 


."■..',!'•"  ■ ..-i..'....-    ■■!   i .ii.il  ■_.,.  in, 

!!    I,,'-!''.  ■•|.,...,N.'|",!...,.|  ■ ,'.!,'  I.' 


-      ■  8JT  only  •"■" 


(.Iuiiiv  li.yku.i.  tl„..u   .hi  toitlvty  , 


t'lory    in    pijy       'ri...  ncliit.vcm* 


Let  ua, adopt  the  policy   flier 

.I.uk.OII.   .111.1    HlJlLUtU.l    111  ill.  11. ,1 


iru-  ii.l.-iv-tol  ill- lUpul.li-      TIlOl 

„n,i  sli-.-n-tli  m  a,-  .mint  ,,...  n.  ]-0|.iil  .- 

''"■'tli"'.-ult'!t  ...ii-  ol  Hi-  --.I  lii.l'i- 
dent  t'arnieis  :uo  everywhere  the  liu- 
society,  und  true  friends  of  lil.M-tv." 
*  'To  put  an  end  forever  to  all  pn 
an.l  interested  legislation  on  this  sub 
and  to  afford  to  every  American  mi,. 

an  indepontlent  freehold,  it  seems  to 
therefore,  beat  to  abandon  the  idei 
raising  a  future  revenue  out  of  the  pu 

Thia  advice  by  on-  of  the  country, 


b.  .|iuiiih...l1..i  In.  country 

Hi-  i.i-.-i,-i,ty    ., I    St, it-.-    d-,.ci„ls    ii„l 
"  wealth,  but    its    ill, 


which    there  is   the  greatest 


fall-u  from  then  il-gr...l„li,.i,.  - 

ii,!'n"ht""!,.l'!i';.t,tv  -V  ,,-„ 
ti;..|  |.lai,-  within  tin  i  -  -  -  , 
r,„.u|.plyiimtl.eir|.r.'--ii:/phy- 


„  ipiarl-i  section 
tj-li.-cent,  per 
humlr.-.l  iii.ll.il- 
(,.,',■-■  ,/..'/orj/,.T  ,/ 


..(  ilep-ti>!.-<  upon  th-  i|Uantity  -iiii-inu,- 
-i„-e  iiuuiiu-r  ul  a  liiimly,  ili-n  -:icn  Ium 


;;.'.:  u, ,;:-,  ;'.■ 


-I  wreliR      1 -.I-  pin I  l.y  ml-.-,  |..r 

Iv.iillS  |.„.-„,i...i,.  -It.  „  ,   .|„,„.  „c.  I-  s-i 

I   ..p......  Ii .„,..„... I  ,.„„ 

,.I.|.„,||         II ,...•    p.,,.„„,c-    -I   nil  III, 

ll.l.il   .CO.  ■■(   ...I. ,   -.   .v.,.,.    ,-apuli 


-at.    t  el.-.,,....,,  i. 
l    '  ■';"'     ''ii'- 


;.,:;;;..'"  s,,:,r.^.,:E 


lii'Sr^SSa 


„,„1  l„,(„i.,,ll,i„L.  tl„„,  „  l,-L,'„ry  to  civil 
nan,  l-tn„t  the  1 1.,  — in .,,.-., f  .l,„„|,,a  1,1, 
and  palsy  liis  arm  liy   l-c,il„tio„   ihi.i